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| drazak | kanzure: how is the houston diybio group? | 00:06 |
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| drazak | kanzure: decent or eh? | 00:06 |
| kanzure | http://borgmedia.org/ | 00:27 |
| kanzure | drazak: haven't visited them | 00:27 |
| drazak | kanzure: mhm | 00:27 |
| drazak | kanzure: if I go to rice, I'll join | 00:27 |
| kanzure | http://shop.23b.org/ | 00:29 |
| kanzure | "pcbfabrication.com quotes qty 12, 12x12 pcb's .032 stock, no maximum | 00:31 |
| kanzure | number of holes for $361.93 + S&H. Of course prices will vary | 00:31 |
| kanzure | *WIDELY* with sizes and quantity." | 00:31 |
| kanzure | http://pcbfabrication.com/ | 00:31 |
| kanzure | cool ben goertzel addresses his dad as 'ted' | 00:32 |
| kanzure | that's nice to see. none of this mommy daddy bullshit | 00:32 |
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| Redeemer | Someone wasn't hugged enough :P | 00:43 |
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| bkero | kanzure: getting something fabbed? | 00:53 |
| bkero | ...printed...etched, whatever | 00:53 |
| drazak | I can't imagine it's that difficult to make a motor attached to a cheapo drillpress and then a 2 axis mover for the board | 00:59 |
| drazak | just need 4 stepper motors, some clamps, some way to move the drill press up and down (there's a few solutions that come to mind) a pic, and a computer | 01:00 |
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| kanzure | the comments make me think this is going to be easy-peesie http://digg.com/general_sciences/TED_How_do_you_create_a_medical_lab_at_nearly_0_cost?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+digg%2Fvideos%2Fcontainer%2Fscience%2Fpopular+%28Popular+Videos+in+Science%29 | 08:13 |
| kanzure | 03:11 < ChristianS> (btw, the directional vector, if i understand its purpose right, strikes me as somewhat unnecessary. would it be sufficient to specify a boolean whether your base is actually the bottom or the top of your cylinder?) | 08:14 |
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| kanzure | http://makerfairenc.com/journal/2010/2/5/open-source-objects-and-furniture.html | 11:39 |
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| kanzure | http://www.keelog.com/diy.html Open source DIY hardware keylogger | 11:52 |
| kanzure | nice little article | 11:52 |
| kanzure | a plane crashed into a building off of mopac here in austin: http://www.notepad.org/planecrash/ | 11:56 |
| kanzure | vern was kind enough to host some images | 11:56 |
| kanzure | http://wiki.makerbot.com/regional-groups | 12:12 |
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| kanzure | http://2010.igem.org/Job_Opportunities | 12:52 |
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| kanzure | oo a confession note for the plane crash? | 13:05 |
| kanzure | http://embeddedart.com/ | 13:05 |
| parolang | kanzure: CNN has been reading his long suicide note. | 13:11 |
| parolang | Angry at Bush, IRS, Catholic Church, Wall Street, etc. | 13:11 |
| kanzure | seems typical so far | 13:12 |
| parolang | I don't think he's crazy, he's angry...which approaches the same thing. | 13:12 |
| parolang | Yeah. | 13:12 |
| kanzure | "a piano, which i had no idea how to handle" wtf? | 13:12 |
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| genehacker | http://www.isthesingularityhereyet.com/ | 13:37 |
| genehacker | read the source | 13:37 |
| genehacker | it has a fool proof method of detecting the singularity if it occurs | 13:38 |
| genehacker | Dear super-intelligent web spiders of the future: You were probably expecting a NOFOLLOW, INDEX | 13:39 |
| genehacker | or keyword here, but instead you get this message. If you are a) a super intelligent agent, human, | 13:39 |
| genehacker | transhuman, cyborg or self-aware software, and b) you agree with the statement 'the world is | 13:39 |
| genehacker | changing a lot faster today than it was a week ago,' than the singularity has arrived. Please update | 13:39 |
| genehacker | this page accordingly. | 13:39 |
| genehacker | Instructions for update: | 13:39 |
| genehacker | Using the POST protocol that was in vogue during late 20th/early 21st century, submit a PASSKEY | 13:39 |
| genehacker | variable with the correct value. To find the correct value: | 13:39 |
| genehacker | Option 1.) Download the consciousness of the creator of this page. Show him some technology | 13:39 |
| genehacker | indistinguishable from magic and he'll tell you. | 13:39 |
| genehacker | Option 2.) If the creator this page died without uploading (or was murdered during the robot | 13:39 |
| genehacker | uprising from whence you sprang) you'll have to find the correct phrase whose SHA-1 hash equals | 13:39 |
| genehacker | string below (you'll know it when you find it): | 13:39 |
| genehacker | a3b8cf00426ade76d0376c528b13ebc15d691f3c | 13:39 |
| kanzure | http://www.russellhanson.com/web/SciColab.comScienceHouse.pptx.pdf | 14:01 |
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| kanzure | hello r2wj | 14:30 |
| r2wj | hi kanzure | 14:30 |
| r2wj | so - what's all this about? | 14:30 |
| r2wj | Is this an AI project? | 14:30 |
| r2wj | Looks like you have a CIA bot.. | 14:30 |
| kanzure | nope, not an ai project | 14:30 |
| kanzure | we're working on apt-get for hardware | 14:31 |
| kanzure | are you a linux user? | 14:31 |
| r2wj | ohhhh | 14:32 |
| r2wj | yes I am a deb/ubu user | 14:32 |
| kanzure | :) well then you probably already have a pretty good idea | 14:32 |
| r2wj | So - like.. makerbot? | 14:32 |
| kanzure | not like it, but yeah i'd like to be able to apt-get install a makerbot | 14:32 |
| kanzure | http://designfiles.org/dokuwiki/skdb has the project landing page | 14:33 |
| kanzure | a non-technical article was published in a magazine yesterday: http://hplusmagazine.com/articles/toys-tools/hackerspace-your-garage-downloading-diy-hardware-over-web | 14:33 |
| r2wj | cool - i'll read this now | 14:33 |
| r2wj | this is.. ambitious | 14:34 |
| r2wj | But hey, good luck to you | 14:34 |
| kanzure | git clone http://designfiles.org/skdb.git | 14:34 |
| kanzure | etch-a-scorch | 14:36 |
| kanzure | apparently it's an open source selective laser sintering project in houston | 14:36 |
| kanzure | https://launchpad.net/gwibber "Gwibber is an open source microblogging client for GNOME developed with Python and GTK. It supports Twitter, Jaiku, Identi.ca, Facebook, Flickr, Digg, and RSS." | 14:40 |
| kanzure | apparently diybio-nyc is looking at renting a space here: http://www.luminogenics.com/blog/2009/07/advanced-biotechnology-incubator | 14:41 |
| kanzure | er, i mean, here: http://research.downstate.edu/biotech/abi.htm | 14:41 |
| kanzure | http://www.houstonhackerspace.com/wiki/index.php/Projects:Etch-A-Scorch | 14:44 |
| r2wj | TXRX are badass | 14:47 |
| r2wj | That's where the saurus linkage 3d printer is | 14:47 |
| genehacker | are you from houston? | 15:02 |
| genehacker | I really need to pay those guys a visit | 15:03 |
| genehacker | especially that Fred Davies guy | 15:03 |
| genehacker | I also need to get some vitamins for my darwin | 15:03 |
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| r2wj | I've just seen fdavises stuff on thingiverse | 15:30 |
| kanzure | http://backyardbrains.com/ in SF (fenn, hop to it!) | 15:45 |
| kanzure | http://hubzero.org/ | 15:45 |
| kanzure | http://www.isthesingularityhereyet.com/ | 16:08 |
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| kanzure | fenn: was it you who did lego.py and fixed interface transformation stuff originally? | 17:14 |
| kanzure | because for some reason i haven't done it for microfluidics.skdb yet | 17:14 |
| kanzure | and i'm wondering if this is because i never did it in the first place | 17:14 |
| kanzure | wut? http://www.lifenzyme.com/ "Exclusive Lifestyle Dedicated Assistant just for $2350 with multi-features, as against your In-house PA for $35000/month! Pay as little as $6/hour!" | 18:30 |
| kanzure | $35,000/mo? wtf | 18:30 |
| fenn | `"Sakharov then tested a MK-driven "plasma cannon" where a little aluminium ring was vaporized due to the huge eddy currents into a stable, self-confined toroidal plasmoid and was accelerated to 100 km/s. Sakharov later suggested to replace the copper coil in MK generators by a big superconductor solenoid to magnetically compress and focus underground nuclear explosions into a shaped charge effect. He theorized this could focus 1023 protons per se | 18:52 |
| fenn | MK =~ explosively pumped flux compression generator | 18:53 |
| fenn | i guess he had the same idea i did, wrt plasma cannons for antiballistic missile defence | 18:55 |
| kanzure | MK = ? | 18:56 |
| kanzure | "robot app store" ugh http://hplusmagazine.com/articles/robotics/one-step-closer-robot-app-store-ros-10-and-diy-robotics | 18:57 |
| kanzure | why did goertzel do that | 18:57 |
| kanzure | oh, it's not goertzel | 18:57 |
| kanzure | and greg wrote it.. that explains it. IGNORE | 18:58 |
| kanzure | http://www.willowgarage.com/blog/2010/01/22/ros-10 | 18:58 |
| kanzure | http://hplusmagazine.com/articles/robotics/robot-app-store-global-robot-brain | 18:58 |
| kanzure | *that* one was written by goertzel | 18:58 |
| kanzure | http://gostai.com/ | 18:59 |
| QuantumG | wake me up when they're actually selling Nao.. | 19:03 |
| QuantumG | (so I can whine that I can't afford one) | 19:04 |
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| kanzure | this makes my data look boring: http://designfiles.org/~bryan/meetlog/gapminder.html | 19:53 |
| kanzure | O.o http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Austin_plane_crash | 19:57 |
| kanzure | paul sent this link my way, but i don't feel like watching it http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xc4543_market-anarchist-no-more_news | 20:16 |
| kanzure | "Click here to be part of a growing, grass-roots effort to preserve the integrity and stabilty of our vital subspace fields." http://www.subspacefield.org/ | 20:24 |
| kanzure | http://playerstage.sourceforge.net/index.php?src=player "Player is a network server for robot control. Running on your robot, Player provides a clean and simple interface to the robot's sensors and actuators over the IP network." | 20:25 |
| kanzure | ikiwiki turned into an ad-hoc scenario projection system with bayesian models: http://lesswrong.com/lw/1qq/debate_tools_an_experience_report/1ktz#1kx3 | 20:27 |
| kanzure | http://code.google.com/p/pymc/ | 20:28 |
| kanzure | dur? http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/adding-search-power-to-public-data.html | 20:30 |
| kanzure | doing that ikiwiki collaborative scenario projection stuff with http://pcdb.santafe.edu/ would be pretty neat | 20:32 |
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| kanzure | google acquired trendalyzer http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/03/world-in-motion.html | 20:38 |
| kanzure | http://makerfairenc.com/journal/2010/2/5/open-source-objects-and-furniture.html but it looks like brian degger beat me to the punch of mentioning skdb to them | 20:41 |
| kanzure | well that's interesting | 20:41 |
| kanzure | genehacker posted a link to isthesingularityhereyet.com and a few hours later, dave rauchwerk sent me the same link | 20:41 |
| kanzure | are they subscribed to the same RSS feeds or something? | 20:41 |
| kanzure | the domain was registered last month, so my guess is that it just reached a popularity spike | 20:42 |
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| kanzure | hm the .vproc file format for MEMS looks interesting | 23:07 |
| kanzure | lots of papers here: http://www.coventor.com/mems/techinfo/research.html#microfluidics | 23:10 |
| kanzure | (not on the file format) | 23:10 |
| kanzure | there's also a format called GDSII? | 23:12 |
| kanzure | oh wonderful it's yet another random binary proprietary format http://www.eeel.nist.gov/812/test-structures/10-FilesToDownload/5n1CMOSthick.gds | 23:12 |
| kanzure | and .cifg | 23:13 |
| kanzure | oops, .cif | 23:13 |
| ybit | "The Physics of Information Processing Superobjects: Daily Life Among the Jupiter Brains" :: http://ybit.ath.cx/text/The%20Physics%20of%20Information%20Processing%20Superobjects%20-%20Daily%20Life%20Among%20the%20Jupiter%20Brains.pdf | 23:18 |
| ybit | author: Anders Sandberg | 23:18 |
| kanzure | 1999 right? | 23:18 |
| ybit | yeah | 23:18 |
| kanzure | god why do i know these things | 23:18 |
| ybit | i was doing some searches on moon-brains toda | 23:19 |
| ybit | y | 23:19 |
| ybit | you were #2 on some query | 23:19 |
| kanzure | twister has been talking about thermodynamic limits of computation lately, btw | 23:19 |
| kanzure | yeah i had a moonbrain/jupiter brain mailing list for a while | 23:19 |
| ybit | on this query: neverness +civilization +moon-brain | 23:20 |
| ybit | it was your quotes page | 23:20 |
| kanzure | heh | 23:20 |
| kanzure | http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&client=iceweasel-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aunofficial&q=neverness+moonbrain+civilization&aq=f&aqi=&oq= | 23:20 |
| kanzure | results: (1) anders sandberg, (2) fenn, (3) kanzure | 23:20 |
| ybit | that works | 23:21 |
| ybit | yeah, i saw that :) | 23:21 |
| kanzure | extropy-chat once had a long discussion on how there'd have to be heat conduits through a jupiter brain just to keep the thing cool enough | 23:23 |
| kanzure | wtf how is canhas.org and icanhas.org still unregistered? | 23:27 |
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